Google Search may be showing featured snippets less often
The tool providers are noticing a decline in the number of featured snippets showing up in the Google search...
Barry Schwartz
Barry Schwartz a Contributing Editor to Search Engine Land and a member of the programming team for SMX events. He owns RustyBrick, a NY based web consulting firm. He also runs Search Engine Roundtable, a popular search blog on very advanced SEM topics. Barry's personal blog is named Cartoon Barry and he can be followed on Twitter here.
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Google My Business adds messaging to desktop interface
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Google Image Search update reduces duplicate image results
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Google passage ranking now live in US English search results
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Google Search dark theme mode expands but search ads are hard to distinguish
Light mode shows a black ad label on a white background but on dark mode, it shows a gray ad label on a black...
Google officially displays years in business in local pack
After several months of testing, Google has officially launched this new label that shows how many years your business has been in...
Google publishes new manual actions aimed at Google News and Discover penalties
Google has not yet announced the addition of these new manual actions but they are all visible in the help...
Google will suspend merchant sites that show higher prices at checkout
Starting on April 6, Google will begin enforcing price accuracy between Merchant Center feeds and...
Google Search Console Discover performance report now includes all data
Also be on the look out for the new origin referrer for Chrome Google Discover...
Google Search launches about this result feature
Google launches a feature to help searchers learn more about the search result listing before they click on...
Video: Dawn Beobide on Google confirmed vs unconfirmed algorithm updates
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Google adds Black-owned business label to product results
This was first launched for the Google local business results in July 2020 and now is supported by Google Merchant...
Google may not display Web Stories that are teasers
Google said its users want to see the full story and not have to click through to see...
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Google adds price drop appearance rich results to search results
Google automatically calculates the price drop based on changes to your structured data over...